Call for External Collaborator – Updating Living Wage Estimates and Wage Distribution Analysis for Costa Rica, ILO Setting Adequate Wages Project, INWORK

Tender summary

Dear Bidder, The International Labour Office (ILO) is looking for an individual to undertake work as an External Collaborator. Below is a summary of the work to be performed: The ILO Setting Adequate Wages (SAW) Project seeks an external collaborator to update the estimates of the cost of the needs of workers and their families and the living wage in Costa Rica, applying the ILO methodology to microdata from the 2024 National Household Income and Expenditure Survey (ENIGH). The assignment covers three main areas of work: (i) updating estimates at the national level, ensuring comparability with previous ILO estimates for Costa Rica (2013 and 2018); (ii) incorporating a gender perspective by estimating the cost of households' care needs and deriving living wage estimates including and excluding care costs; and (iii) assessing the gap between the updated living wage and the statutory minimum wage in 2024 and simulating the effects of a gradual progression toward a minimum wage level closer to the living wage on the wage distribution by gender and the gender pay gap. The assignment will result in an Excel file with updated estimates, fully annotated STATA do-files, and a technical report documenting methodology, findings, and policy implications. If you are interested, please express interest and follow the instructions attached to consult the detailed terms of reference and other relevant information in the ILO e-sourcing platform. Please submit your proposal before the specified deadline. Thank you.

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• Issued by ILO.
• Located in Switzerland.
• Source notice rfx_6844_HQ on UNGM.
• Notice published 22 May 2026; Tenqual indexed it 23 May 2026.
• Deadline listed as 1 Jun 2026.
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